Synchronous Business Process Execution Engine for Action Orchestration in a Single Execution Transaction Context

3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein executing the composite action synchronously in a single execution transaction context comprises executing without clearing the fetched process execution related objects from the memory.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the indication is received via an application programming interface (“API”).

5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein a specific activity within the plurality of activities is executed using an API.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the procedural markup language is expressed in eXtensible Markup Language (“XML”).

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected portion of the plurality of activities is the plurality of activities.

14. The system recited in claim 12, wherein executing the composite action in a single execution transaction context includes executing without clearing the process execution related objects from the memory.

19. The computer program product recited in claim 17, wherein executing the composite action in a single execution transaction context includes executing without clearing the fetched process execution related objects from the memory.